“You may have a firm belief that Apple provides the better product, but over the last decade, Apple computers were purged from most schools, making them only acceptable in a few. You can certainly lobby to have them return but, once again, much like it probably is in your company, you likely won’t make much headway because the education system remains underfunded in many areas, and PC support has never been at the top of the funding list,” Rob Enderle writes for TechNewsWorld.
Enderle then goes on to pitch his readers a variety of Windows laptops, with no more mention of that nasty, dirty, different company from Cupertino, but not after first admitting, “I come from a time when getting ready for school meant buying a couple of binders, some pencils and some new clothes you wouldn’t be caught dead in. Transportation was a one-speed bicycle… and high tech was a circular slide rule.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Rob’s old bike isn’t the only thing capable of only one speed. Windows suits Rob’s one-speed (extra slow) mind perfectly, don’t you think? While technically true that over the last decade, “Apple computers,” meaning Apple II and Apple IIe computers, “were purged from most schools,” Rob conveniently leaves out the information that “in 2003, Apple’s laptop market share in the K-12 segment grew by 3.2% over the previous year, to 26.9% of laptops sold in this category.” This was reported by a small publication known as BusinessWeek (“Apple’s Back-to-School Blast”) just a few weeks ago on August 3rd, but of course, a bigtime business “analyst” like Rob probably can’t be bothered to read every tiny rag some outfit manages to print, now can he? Still, the pesky facts that Rob so loves to ignore remain. So, how exactly does Apple manage to show growth and own over a quarter of the K-12 laptop market after being “purged from most schools over the last decade,” Mr. Enderle? Or did you just write that to try to help sell more Windows computers to schools? Try to pedal really fast and see if that’ll help warm up your noggin enough to give us some real answers.
Rob, great job again… I love how, whenever you want to cough up another one of those wonderful We Want Wintel pieces, you refuse to let the facts stand in your way. (Go back to bed… you’re an embarrassment to your kind.)
…the new iMac?
My sister-in-law manages the computers for a catholic grade school in the bay area. She has a lab of the original iMac but she is continually pressured to replace them with Dells – from administrators and parents. She has stood up against them but I think many have given in to the pressure rather than risk their jobs and being labeled a ‘mac zeolot.’
The pics of the new iMac do look “cool” enough to be the real thing. The picture could have been stolen pics from an ad agency. I guess we only have a week to wait.
iSteve,
my daughter will go to school next year. Which Bay Area school? If they move to Dell I will have one less school to check out.
It’s Enderle that should be purged… from ever writing or making a living shilling for M$. ;-]
That photoshop “iMac” has been posted on the web for over a week now. It was designed by an individual who has nothing to do with Apple. It’s nice, but would be unstable on a desktop. It’s not the new iMac.
New iMac stolen photos?
MacBidouille has posted (LINK: http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2004-08-27#9376) what supposedly could be pictures from the new iMac (3G / G5).
They were taken on a elevator of a Paris airport (Roissy – Charles de Gaulle). The pictures first appeared in a .Mac account but was soon shut down (* apple legal? Don’t know).
MacBidouille thinks they are fake, but these guys apparently went to a lot of trouble mounting a scenario to take these pictures. You can’t actually tell if they are fake or not (from the angles of the picture) but at least the mistery surrounding the story does give it some credibility IMHO.
I went digging for more info at MacBidouille forums and someone said that if this is the new iMac it looks just like a LCD TV. So, it hit me:
What if Apple cleverly designed this product to be used at home / home office and for it the become a Home Entertainment Center? I know SJ said hi did not see the computer and the TV merging but think of all the uses i could have:
1) Computer
2) Stereo (iTunes / iPod / AirTunes / etc)
3) DVR (Tivo like or EyeTV)
4) Digital Pcitures frame (iPhoto)
5) DVD player / Recorded (SuperDrive / iDVD)
What do you think!?!
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About iMac’s stolen pictures:
The photos first appeared on Apple Insider forums.
Here’s the Link:
http://forums.appleinsider.com/showthread.php?s=e557cdf36c3a70eea892eaecab4228dc&threadid=45629
CORRECTED MACBIDOUILLE’S LINK:
http://www.macbidouille.com/niouzcontenu.php?date=2004-08-27#9376
You have to exclude the last parenthesis. Sorry.
TechNewsWorld (ECT) is goading Mac (and Linux) users so they can get readers. I am starting to wonder whether they are (paid?) shills for Microsoft rather than simply trying to increase their readership by publishing articles that inflame Mac and Linux users.
ECT often uses Enderle’s quotes and articles despite the fact that Enderle’s credibility is severely tarnished. Linux users disdain of Enderle is similar to that of mac users.
ECT News Network produces these titles: E-Commerce Times, TechNewsWorld, MacNewsWorld, CRM Buyer & LinuxInsider
She has a lab of the original iMac but she is continually pressured to replace them with Dells – from administrators and parents. – iSteve
If she is ever in danger of losing her job, agree to the replacements, but at the same time, ask for an increase in the budget. If asked why, explain how TCO works, that costs don’t stop at paying salespeople. Maybe they’ll think twice over that. Money talks.
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Maybe Enderle’s kids go to a PC-only school, and so his limited analysis suggests that all schools have ditched Mac’s?
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I’m disappointed.
My cousin in Australia just bought a PC for his kids’ schooling (today in fact), with my little brother’s help. I had no idea – I’m currently living in San Francisco – so the buggar evidently waited until I was gone… probably coz he knew the hell he’d get if I’d been there!!
I’d told him and showed him that Mac’s are better, but he wanted “compatibility” (read: ability to steal software of others) and “cheapness” (a $10 floppy disk drive is “such a bargain” these days) and he probably also wanted the ability to rip DVD’s easily (once again, media piracy).
But, of course, he doesn’t get iLife, so he’ll have to hobble things together, unless Adobe or M$ release something similar.
He’ll pay for it, that’s for sure, as do/will all M$ “customers”, even those who pirate.
I initially wished 1,000 viruses onto his computer, but there was really no point – it’ll get ’em in the end anyway.
The best consolation? I’m here so I won’t be undertaking any support. I’d really like to see him get MAME working from a DOS prompt, or see what happens when he has to download a 50Mb service patch over dialup.
Actually, in some small, twisted way, I kinda do wish I was there.
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since macs have a lower TCO and are easier to use (waaaay easier.. to NOT break, get it?) his ‘they have no budget’ argument falls in line with Apple’s sales pitch.
Duh!
Why would schools want to take on a full-time techie to babysit some eMachines…?
That sucker better get out of the way because the stampede is a coming!
Technically he is correct if 51% of brain dead school boards move to WinTel then Most schools purged Apple computers.
“…the new iMac?”
I like this concept better…
http://www.theapplecollection.com/design/macdesign/iMac-G5-headless.html
At the large midwestern city school district where I teach, they have gone “offically” Windows only. (There are a few holdout Mac labs in some schools, notably the elementaries) The district as a whole supports, supplies, and forces us onto Windows.
Yes, Macs have been effectively purged from our system. The purge has taken place during the last ten years as Enderle claims.
this fat enderle bastard is acting like a runaway truck with his cheapshots at apple. one of these days, he’s gonna piss off some real hardcore mac fanatic/zealot who will put a hit on his head, or do him in himself.
“My sister-in-law manages the computers for a catholic grade school in the bay area. She has a lab of the original iMac but she is continually pressured to replace them with Dells – from administrators and parents.”
And this is the problem, not the computers! Administrators who don’t teach listen to IT folks(Who are M$ best advertising, guys like RE too) who recommend Wintel since it provides them with work.
Second, administrators are victims of Dells low pricing. We’ve heard countless comments like “Apple is $1200, Dell offered us $79�We’re GOING DELL!”
In fact a District in Des Moines,IA did that, got infected and had a $70,000 bill they couldn’t afford to clear the viruses and had to do it themselves. I’d bet it really cost more than the $70,000!
Parents harp that their kids(who are probably in K-8) should use Windows since that’s what they will use in the workplace. If that were true, kids in 8th grade in 1994 would be using Win 3.1 in the workplace today. They are, right?
Point is things change too rapidly to teach kids that way. They need to be taught concepts of computing, WP,SS,PP digital and so on.
It’s very hard to fight uninformed stupidity in the administrators and parents in K-8.
“And this is the problem, not the computers! Administrators who don’t teach listen to IT folks(Who are M$ best advertising, guys like RE too) who recommend Wintel since it provides them with work”.
Here in the UK they’ve got it right.
They’ve moved away from centralised control by districts and administrators.
Schools are responsible for their own budgets and the district
or LEA as we call it has absolutely zero say over what we can buy. They can advise but that’s as far as it goes.
As a result in our Key Stage One (K-3) department we have “purged” Windows and are now fully Mac. The kids love them. The older children are about to be introduced to the iBook mobile classroom.
We were paying �2000 per year for tech support. We’ve now halved that. The guy still maintains the suite of 15 Dell Optiplexes but that is up for replacement next year so who knows?
There’s a sign on the entrance to our K-3 building that says
“You Are Now Entering a Windows Free Zone”
Peace reigns and children learn.
MDN – please never publish the name Enderle again. This is called “enabling”.
– we don’t need no education
– we don’t need no thought control…
– leave these kids alone!!
Score another one for England! I’m lucky that my professors and many of the students are informed enough they either support Macs or are neutral. Maybe it’s because so many of them enjoy Linux as well. One of the profs in the department has a 17″ AlumiBook with Linux and VPC with WinXP and runs all the programs he needs. That was enough to convince me not to get a cheap Windows laptop and a cheap Mac. I’ll get the 15″ AlumiBook like I wanted and an iPod for some extra storage, VPC and I can run everything I really need. Buy a Dull laptop just so I can conform to the wishes of the department, I think not. Not to mention the fact that now I only have to soup up one computer and I don’t have to worry about the viruses. Cram and Jam, we love thee!